At 7 o’clock Dr. George B. Cutten, Ph.D. President of Acadia,
preached to an immense audience on the subject “The Church as an
Economic Factor,” dealing with the question from a purely financial
standpoint and in a plain practical manner proved that to remove the
Church and its influence from a town, village or country was to
decrease values; that the church was the best police force, the
greatest controlling power of the liquor and kindred evils, and in
every way enhanced the values of property. He referred at length to
the great work of the Baptist Church in Amherst and congratulated
them upon attaining this important era in their existence.
Dr. Cutten is a grandson of the late Elisha Cutten, a former deacon
of this church. Both he and Mr. Lawson united with the church under
the ministry of Dr. Steele.
LECTURE OF REV. J. H. McDONALD, D. D.
On Monday evening Rev. J. H. McDonald D.D. delivered a finely
conceived lecture on “The Poets and the Life Beyond.” Their tributes
to immortality were quoted from old Homer down through the long
series of the
“Grand old masters
Whose distant footsteps echo
Through the corridors of time.”
It was a rare occasion, and the feelings of the audience were voiced
in a tribute by C. R. Smith, K. C.
The Church is certainly under great obligation to Dr. McDonald for
his great assistance. His presence was in itself an inspiration and
benediction.